DURING THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF CULTURAL HERITAGE:
CULTURAL HERITAGE AND SACRED SITES: WORLD HERITAGE FROM AN INDIGENOUS PERSPECTIVE

A PANEL DISCUSSION

Panelists Dr. Jones Kyazze, UNESCO Representative to the United Nations - Marguerite Smith (Shinnecock) - Dr. Sarah Titchen, UNESCO World Heritage Centre - Luis Delgado Hurtado, Yachay Wasi, from Cuzco, Peru - Delphine Red Shirt, Yale University - Henrietta Marrie, Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity - John Scott, OHCHR Geneva. Moderators Professor Russel Barsh, NYU School of Law, and Roberto Mucaro Borrero, Chair, NGO Committee on the UN International Decade of World's Indigenous Peoples

This comprehensive panel took place on Wednesday, 15 May 2002 at 7:30 pm at New York University

	Statement by Marie-Danielle Samuel Main Representative to the UN for Yachay Wasi (NGO/ECOSOC & DPI), Organizer of the Cultural Heritage and Sacred Sites Panel June 5, 2002 NYC
	Panelists Dr. Jones Kyazze, UNESCO Representative to the United Nations -- The Meeting of the NGO Committee On the International Decade of the Indigenous Peoples in the Framework of the United Nations - Year for Cultural Heritage, 2002
	Marguerite Smith (Shinnecock) -- Cultural Heritage and Sacred Sites: World Heritage from an Indigenous Perspective - 15 May 2002 - New York University
	Dr. Sarah Titchen, UNESCO World Heritage Centre -- Cultural Heritage and Sacred Sites: World Heritage from an Indigenous Perspective - 15 May 2002 - New York University
	Luis Delgado Hurtado, Yachay Wasi, from Cuzco, Peru -- Cultural Heritage and Sacred Sites: World Heritage from an Indigenous Perspective -15 May 2002 - New York University
	Delphine Red Shirt, Yale University -- Cultural Heritage and Sacred Sites: World Heritage from an Indigenous Perspective - 15 May 2002 - New York University
	Henrietta Marrie, Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity -- Cultural Heritage and Sacred Sites: World Heritage from an Indigenous Perspective - 15 May 2002 - New York University
	John Scott, OHCHR Geneva -- Cultural Heritage and Sacred Sites: World Heritage from an Indigenous Perspective 15 May 2002 - New York University
	Professor Russel Barsh, NYU School of Law Moderator
	Roberto Mucaro Borrero, Chair, NGO Committee on the UN International Decade of World's Indigenous Peoples Moderator

CASE STUDIES
During the International Year of Cultural Heritage
Cultural Heritage and sacred Sites: World Heritage from an Indigenous perspective
A Panel Discussion

On March 21, 2002, a CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ON SACRED SITES AND CULTURAL HERITAGE ISSUES went out to world Indigenous communities. A brief outline of a case involving a site sacred to the Indigenous Community which needs more attention or is currently the subject of legal litigation was requested by a working group of the NGO Committee on the UN International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples. The compilation of these 30 submissions was given during the Panel event on May 15, 2002 and will be presented along with a final report of the Panel Discussion to the Members of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

CASE STUDIES

Some of these submissions can be viewed here.